Artificial Intelligence is a branch of science that can simulate human intelligence. AI is nothing but algorithms with specific rules, and AI systems can learn from the iteration of machine learning algorithms fed to them. This makes machine learning better perform its specified tasks without external interference.
Artificial Intelligence (machine learning) can process analytic insights to advance security and data safety solutions.
In today’s world, we have to scrutinize attacks from multiple sources, viz. network traffic, application and transactional information, customer data, social media data, cloud information, and many more, which can be quite cumbersome and time-consuming; AI facilitates/helps to rapidly examine this large amount of information by applying advanced math on huge-scale information needed to mitigate the threats.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a much-needed move for thwarting malicious attackers and cyber-related threats.
- Cyber threats are increasing rapidly daily. Hackers and attackers are required to succeed only once, whereas defenders have to guard an ever-growing attack surface 24×7, which is beyond the capability of humans to protect systems from such brute-force attacks.
- It is practically impossible and very expensive, as it will take hundreds of individuals to drill and investigate all modern cyber threats and take remedial action to prevent any sabotage. Artificial intelligence-oriented technologies can perform quick mathematical calculations, which is the primary benefit of cyber security. They will facilitate bridging this gap by providing high-level detection and immediate response.
- Artificial Intelligence gives the flexibility to rapidly examine a large amount of information by applying advanced math on huge-scale information needed to mitigate threats.
- Humans handling massive amounts of data can be fault-prone because of various factors, viz. boredom or various distractions, whereas Machines can work on the same data set repeatedly and can conduct routine and repetitive tasks much quicker and with extra efficiency.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Augmentation
Artificial Intelligence may not distinguish between a real and simulated attack, but it can definitely fasten the detection process by augmenting human analyst potential.
Below are some technical methods of human skill augmentation through AI:
- Triaging: AI-driven techniques will be applied to enhance human analysis. AI will implement machine learning processes of historical patterns and data visualization to instantly filter out pertinent alerts and provide triaged and enhanced alerts for human analysts to investigate further.
- Threat Hunting: AI is highly advantageous as it looks for patterns and anomalies throughout the entire data and provides the outcome to human analysts for further investigation.
- Threat Anticipation: AI enhances human potential in threat anticipation and secures its customers by alerting them when any anomaly is noticed in the network.
- Incident Response: AI helps in immediate incident response when an alert is raised for any incident. This is followed by isolating the network to stop the spread, recovering the impacted systems, looking for the source of the attack, and enhancing the security framework for similar attacks.
Different Types of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence can be classified based on its complexity in replicating human intelligence. Below are the different types of AI :
- Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI): Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) is also known as Narrow AI or Weak AI. This AI is best suited for simulation with constrained parameters but is goal-oriented and performs specified tasks e.g. face recognition, voice assistant etc.
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is also known as Deep AI or Strong AI. It is a conceptual idea that AI can mimic human intelligence and learn from its iterative tasks.
- Artificial Superintelligence (ASI): Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) is a hypothetical situation where machines can become self-aware and surpass human intelligence.